Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I apologise, Mr President, and I accept your admonishment. Senator Humphries is trying to stop the broadband network from being built. He should go to Gungahlin and explain to all the residents of Gungahlin, who have had absolutely appalling broadband, that he wants to stop it.

On to Tasmania and the report—since we officially launched on 12 August 2010, the NBN in Tasmania has seen a steady increase in the take-up of services. Following community consultation in the first release site, there has also been a strong and positive consent rate of residents choosing to connect to the NBN. For the interest of those opposite—and you can draw your own conclusions about the comments of a particular RSP, as we call them—Telstra announced that for the first time as part of the agreement they were going to test the network of NBN. They said they were going to trial it for 100 people—